Take the sleepy little town of Fenton, West Virginia, where little has changed in the last 150 years. Add an aging over-endowed diva, fireball wielding senior citizens, an ex hippie conservative republican warlock and a somewhat misguided "epic battle" between good and evil. Sprinkle liberally (pun intended) with gnomes, zombies, vampires, gremlins, winged horses and a whole host of other strange creatures, including a super intelligent were-maraner. Shake well, (literally) and you get a r...

Okrachokee Beach, northeast Florida's best kept secret. The tiny coastal town boasts more senior citizen communities per capita than any other in the US. It has no airport, seaport, or train station, but hosts three national parks and countless nature preserves. Mangroves are a common sight as are manatees and alligators, mainly because the majority of the real estate in Okrachokee Beach was created by decades of draining and filling in their habitat.Unlike many coastal cities, Okra...

Crime is running rampant in New Megatropolis and someone has taken all the super heroes offline.Who do you call?The most unlikely team of not so super heroes ever assembled.Enter Rex Bannon, unofficial leader and mild mannered scientist. Mutated by a research experiment gone horribly wrong, when danger strikes, he can curl up in a ball like an armadillo, roll away fast, and jump really high.Emma Doherty, TV news reporter, a freak accident fused a cell phone in h...

Aliens have landed in the tiny town of Paradise, Alaska. It is their intent to bestow upon humanity great wisdom and god like powers. In an effort to understand the humans better, the aliens take on human form.What could possibly go wrong?Several things.A major failure to communicate.An annual Peace and Love Festival that draws hundreds of tourists to Paradise for the weekend.A freak spring storm that wipes out the power and the only road in or out....

All over the world powerful forces are gathering, the pastor of a mega church, the head of the now defunct German mafia, the CEO of a multinational food conglomerate, and a secret militant society that goes all the way back to the time of Christ.What do they have in common?They all want to live forever.Join archaeologist Elijah Brooks and his granddaughter April as they find themselves in a race to discover the fabled "Tree of life" in order to save his dying wife, a r...

From the Author of "Dragons Don't Grow On Trees."Book two of the "Fenton Dragon" series:People all over the "dragon-magical" town of Fenton, West Virginia are losing the ability to lie, even politicians and criminals.This has Sheriff Bud Wilson worried. With all the unprecedented honesty and a few unexplained disappearances, he's afraid that it's the work of the ten-thousand-year-old dragon that's sleeping under the town, but that might not explain all the other strang...

The environment that we construct affects both humans and our natural world in myriad ways. There is a pressing need to create healthy places and to reduce the health threats inherent in places already built. However, there has been little awareness of the adverse effects of what we have constructed-or the positive benefits of well designed built environments.This book provides a far-reaching follow-up to the pathbreaking Urban Sprawl and Public Health, published in 2004. That book...

A Halloween thriller short story. When Tammy is house sitting, she get creeped out. She keeps hearing and seeing things in the dark corners of the mansion she is alone in. This time it is not her imagination, and she's about to go for the ride of her life.

New York Times bestselling author Lee Child and the International Thriller Writers, Inc. present a collection of remarkable stories in First Thrills. Showcasing many of the organization's bestselling authors as well as rising stars in the genre, here are twenty-five brand-new, never-before published, stories packed with murder, mystery, and mayhem.*A cunning criminal thinks he can use a child to take the rap for his crimes.*A hospital intern turned body-snat...

In this pulse-racing New York Times bestseller from the world's #1 bestselling author, violent animal attacks are destroying entire cities**,** and two unlikely heroes must save the world before it's too late.All over the world, brutal animal attacks are crippling entire cities. Jackson Oz, a young biologist, watches the escalating events with an increasing sense of dread. When he witnesse...

A Navy SEAL returns home to find his family in trouble and his high school sweetheart impossible to resist. First in the Texas Family Reckoning series.Navy SEAL John Sloane thought he'd come home to Texas to save the family ranch and reconnect with his estranged twin brother. He never expected to reunite with the girl whose heart he broke. But when Alicia Adams's daughter is kidnapped, the fearless SEAL jumps into action.However, the off-book op poses unfam...

C.T. Ferguson nearly died. Now, he’s investigating a murder.What could go wrong?C.T. is back to work a few short months after being shot. He’s working on his own and taking cases he would’ve declined before.So when a woman comes into C.T’s office and asks him to investigate her sister’s brutal murder, he jumps at the chance.He has no trouble finding suspects. When the confrontations turn physical, though, C.T. Is unsure of h...